Thursday, December 01, 2016

"In a race to widen their respective developer networks, Amazon and
Google have released separate self-service tools to help inventors
create apps based on machine learning that will ultimately make
it easier for brands to work with the technology." inform Laurie Sullivan, writer and editor for MediaPost.

Amazon has
made three of its artificial intelligence tools available to developers
within its Web Services group, marking the first time
that the company has allowed outside inventors to build apps and
services on its technology.

Building AI capabilities into apps
requires access to large amounts of data and expertise in
machine learning and neural networks. The deep and machine-learning
algorithms require access to automatic speech recognition,
natural-language understanding and classification to collect and train
the networks to recognize phrases, speech inflections, objects, and
keywords.

The group,Amazon AI,
features three services: Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon
Rekognition. Lex,
the technology that powers Amazon Alexa, allows any developer to build
conversational experiences for Web, mobile and connected devices.
Capital One, OhioHealth, HubSpot and Twillo have used Amazon
Lex to build out chatbots for their respective companies. The Washington Post and GoAnimate used Amazon Polly to turn text into speech, enabling their respective apps to talk
with 47 lifelike voices in multiple languages.

The third tool,
Rekognition -- which Redfin, and SmugMug applied to apps -- allows app
users to sort through images. The application uses deep
learning-based image and face recognition.

Google also has been
pushing self-serve tools, trying hard to convince developers to adopt
technology that allows them to create bots for Google
Assistant through Actions on Google, which the company should release
earlier this month. Venture Beat reported in October that a software development kit (SDK) that brings Google Assistant into device not made by Google should become available
next year.Read more... Source: MediaPost Communications

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I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.